[Info-vax] Attaching an actual 3.5" floppy drive to SIMH-VAX RXV21 device?

[Paul Sture]

On Mon, 13 Aug 2012 16:55:00 -0700, Steven Schweda wrote:

>> >    For a hint:
>>
>> >      http://antinode.info/dec/vs3100_diag.html
>>
>> I saw ST506 and RX-50 and RX-33 mentioned there but nothing even
>> resembling a 3.5" disk.
> 
>    Look again?
> 
>> And I certainly wouldn't want to try doing backups to one!!!
> 
>    It's been a while, but I remember seeing a fellow back up
> a VAXstation I using its RX50 drive (and a pile of floppies).
> The hard disk was pretty small, but it still wasn't much fun.

I once installed the layered software on an 11/730 using a pile of 
floppies.  It wasn't much fun.  I also had to use the VMSä$TAILOR stuff 
to leave enough space on the undersized system disk to do anything.

This was a case where the owner's son had got involved in specifying a 
system.  Of course a computer needed floppies and a BASIC compiler!

<shudder>

-- 
Paul Sture